On Fri, 6 Jan 2006 16:13:43 -0600, "Vanguard"
wrote:

|Instead I use e-mail aliases. Right now I use Sneakemail. They have free
|accounts where you can define an unlimited number of e-mail aliases. The
|free accounts have lower quota (size of message, how many bytes per month)
|than the paid accounts but then I don't get much traffic through the
|aliases. If an alias starts to get spammed, I kill it and that traffic is
|zero thereafter. Because the alias was created and divulged only to one
|recipient, I know exactly who betrayed me. For example, if you want to
|download demo videos of games from Gamespot.com, you need to provide a valid
|e-mail address. Aliases are valid e-mail addresses so you will get their
|confirmation e-mail to complete the registration process. Everytime that I
|have opened an account at Gamespot.com, spam starts coming after around 3
|days. Although CNet control Gamespot, I haven't had a problem with aliases
|divulged to CNet when, for example, wanting to submit a user review of
|software available at their download.com site. So it is Gamespot alone at
|CNet that is farking over its users. You don't even have to kill the alias.
|You could just disable it. You can configure it to automatically delete any
|mails delivered to it (so the sender doesn't get a rejection). If you use a
|simple forwarding service to hide your e-mail address, any reply to a
|forwarded message will go through your own mail server and not back through
|the forwarding service (i.e., they forward to you but do not provide SMTP
|service that specifically goes through your alias account). Any mails sent
|through a Sneakemail account have the headers setup so on a reply your
|message goes back through their server, all headers get stripped so only
|their headers are in the delivered mail, and it looks like it came from your
|account at Sneakemail.
I have free accounts at Mailshell (tested beta vers
but dont create any new addys) & SpamGourmet.com which
call themselves disposable but act like aliases as u
describe above. I do assign a new addy to each
recipient altho u dont have to so I know who spammed
me. I do remove myself b4 letting an addy expire.

I'll look at Sneakemail & compare to to 2 above. TY 4
tip.

1 of the 1st addys to get spammed was not an alias but
a 'base' RR addy that I swear only RR & Computer
Assoc(EZ AV) had. Bummer. Luckely creating a new RR
addy & redirecting all aliases there is fairly easy.

So I like aliases,aks's or whatever the proper
terminology is alot.

Thanks- bye- Larry

Any advise is my attempt to contribute more than I have received but I can only assure you that it works on my PC. GOOD LUCK.